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This goes reeeeeaaaaaaaaaly nice with Apple's new "dark mode" in Mojave.

It's running now on port 4201 Passion Map. Still testing. Gotta turn on Open-FFA, and other changes.

This is coming back, and it's going to work this time.

Damn Godson, You are some kind of Nostradamus.
Did you figure that out all by yourself?

Spazzy made some bases in '08
There's another set like this, which is the same, but different... but I have not been able to find it.
Looks like it was used in a Hi-X variant. Maybe someone has it.

In the grenade plugin, we can make the size of the shockwave produced smaller than _shockOutRadius, (but not larger). This is done by ending the shock early. Also, the speed of the shock's enlargement can be controled.
Can this effect be applied to this plugin?

More than a little off topic, but here is something. http://images.planet-mofo.com/who/112707/

There are some other things we do, but we don't talk much (in public) about exactly how we do cheat detection.
A couple weeks ago I found out I was using something new for over six months, and I didn't even know about it. They snuck it in on me.

Good to see ya' BIYA, Yeah, more than a few of us are still here. Some things change, some stay the same. I'd say there's been a little bit of a resurgence, in the last eight months to a year. (a little). If I pay attention I see a lot of old timers showing up to poke around for a bit. Hope you stay...

fixedscale 0 0 doesn't look right to me, try fixedscale 2 2

but i guess you've already found your solution with texsize

You can also do this with a "fixedscale" texture matrix.
If you do that, you should know that by default, textures repeat every 8 units.

Code that Trepan had prepared but never made it into official source had this material option.
texautoscale 8 8 # world view generated texcoord scales

Reverse Geno only makes sense if you also have the Apocalypse plugin, which will not be released. Parts of the Apocalypse plugin have been released, like CaptureBonus. PlayerDB was hackalicious. It used to crash once a week, but blast improved it by modding bzfs itself (I think). Thanks Blast. Blast...

My invisible_noradar material This makes a box completely invisible, doesn't even cast a shadow, but it's still "there" for collision detection . May as well remove some other attributes while you're at it. I use this a lot. material name invisible_noradar color 0 0 0 0 noculling noradar noshadow no...

Yeah, the reverse geno flag is gone. I have been asked to clarify geno-ratios, the "bait" plugin. But I don't want to release the exact ratios, because players will game the system. # If a player has the number of minimum number of deaths AND their K/D ratio is # less than or equal to ratio specifie...

Some fun over the weekend. Since the introduction of the multiple-shot flags, we've had the problem of sometimes (fairly often) somebody else gets the points for your kill. This is caused by the extra shots (which are actually world weapons) over-writing the shot-ID-numbers of previous shots. The wa...

You may have to wait up to three minutes after a callsign goes NR (non-responsive) until the server automatically kills the connection. The reason you went NR will almost always be on your end, or somewhere in the middle, and only rarely will the server be at fault. If it's the server's problem, usu...

The King of the Hill (KOTH) plugin also springs to mind. I am very skeptical that you will be able to get any world weapon to do team checks, but the only reason I say that is.... If it was possible someone would have already done it. But having said that... I can't remember anyone WANTING to do tha...

I like this, Thank You Allejo.

It looks to me that the zone was a leftover that the mapper forgot to remove. It does not appear to do anything. It has no attribute. The Zone object Specifies a certain range in the world, and what attributes that range has. zone name example_zone position 0.0 0.0 0.0 size 1.0 1.0 1.0 rotation 0.0 ...

Think small, default size or smaller, a big map is never going to make it with low player counts. If it's fun 2on2, then those four players will stick around long enough to attract more players. Keep the action fast, compressed. One trick is to zone all spawns so that none happen at the outer edges....

What would work... They spawn in a zone with no options except to pass through an area where they cannot help but pick up a flag, then pass through a teleporter... And i'm pretty sure you can forbid the dropping of flags very effectively, but can't remember how that's done.

We've tried many times to "zap" flags to players, and it's always the same. It starts out looking pretty good, but very soon there are packets lost and a player does not receive the flag. Then as soon as there are players running around without their assigned flag, the whole concept falls apart. At ...

In experiments I did in 2009.... I had seven variations of starship enterprise models with face counts from 1,000 to 100,000. My mac's BZFlag frames-per-second dropped pretty significantly as the total number of mesh faces neared 30,000. I ran public servers with these models and almost all of the p...

Bumping a very old old thread, because this map is made of awesome and needs to be seen again.
It will be seen soon.

Thanks to Allejo, plugin changes are now active. 1. Shot Limit Zones now display shot limit at flag pickup. (Still not perfect because i have shot limits on both zoned and unzoned AirStrike,AS flags.) 2. The much anticipated Anti-Bait is now baked into Apocalypse Team-Flag-Geno function!!! a. A high...